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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Blogjam

While it remains true that Republicans are all crazytown fascists and that futurologists are all hucksters peddling pseudo-science at best and Robot Cult pseudo-faith at worst, I just am not feeling particularly inspired at the moment to point this out over and over and over again. No doubt my hilarity or outrage needle with twitch again and propel me soon enough into writing on my usual themes, but, I dunno, today...? I got nothing.

I know, can you imagine anybody producing the substance of Glenda Jackson in "Nasty Habits" or Philip Roth's anti-nixonian Our Gang in response to these killer clowns? These aren't even Babbits or Elmer Gantrys or ANYTHING -- just ill-educated ill-intentioned ill-smelling fourth-tier fascists stumbling around without even a Fuhrer to hop up and down for. You don't even have to be smart or particularly principled to resist the crappy crud at the bottom of the Cracker Barrel, blech.

> While it remains true that. . . futurologists are all hucksters> peddling pseudo-science at best and Robot Cult pseudo-faith at worst,> I just am not feeling particularly inspired at the moment to point> this out over and over and over again.

All crazy and dumb people have two things in common: they’re predictableand they get boring very quick. Only intelligence is capable ofunpredictability and novelty (a fact which the FAI theory rests on).This guy clearly has some condition which the incessant repetitionand rigid patterns of expression are evidence of.

So he thinks SIAI and its people are non-entities, good-for-nothings;I suppose according to him they should basically be living on the street.He probably isn’t doing too well himself; people who think and actlike this don’t do well in life, except perhaps as criminals ortyrants. This anti-social pattern is so strong and insistent thathe actually may be dangerous. Perhaps forward him to the authorities.He probably matches some profile.

Don’t stir the poor man’s confused mind, and when he gives up,erase everything. This deserves no place in this blog archive, orany storage medium for that matter, as it adds nothing of substanceor value to it, or to the world in general.-------------------------

To which the blog owner replied:-------------------------Michael Anissimov says:July 12, 2011 at 4:53 pm

Berkeley allows people to lecture if they speak the postmodernistultra-liberal language, no actual insights required. That community ismore of a circle-jerk than transhumanism because at least normalpeople care about H+, whereas the ultra-liberal postmodernist academiccommunity is a true echo chamber.-------------------------